Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in Peace Reserve Officer Cloninger. Thank you for your service. My thoughts and prayers are with the Cloninger Family and the Mount Gilead Police Department.

Cpl. Gary Hughes (Retired)
Passaic County Sheriff's Office New Jersey

August 17, 2021

PRAYERS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND OUR FAMILY OF BLUE. ANOTHER OFFICER TAKEN TO SOON
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF YOUR COMMUNITY
REST IN GODS ARMS

MOTHER OF A DALLAS POLICEWOMAN LINDA KEM
None

August 17, 2021

RIP, Reserve Officer Cloninger. Praying for your loved ones.

Officer C Curione (Retired)
Rochester Police Department, NY

August 17, 2021

Thank you for your service.

Dmytro Goloborodko

August 17, 2021

On behalf of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office in Klamath Falls Oregon, we send our sincerest sympathy in the recent loss of your Reserve Officer, Robert Craig Cloninger, from a medical condition. It is always a huge loss when a fellow Reserve Officer succumbs from complications of a medical issue. His bravery and courage to protect and serve your community has not gone unnoticed. Our Prayers and Thoughts to the Biscoe Police Department where Reserve Officer Cloninger was a full time Officer, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office and the Ellerbe Rescue Squad where he had previously served.

Sheriff Chris Kaber
Klamath County Sheriff's Office

August 17, 2021

Rest in Peace...

Ptl B L Waltz (Ret)
Avon Lake PD OH

August 17, 2021

On behalf of POINT 27, we would like to offer condolences for Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger. Please know we are eternally grateful for Robert’s service and his ultimate sacrifice.

To honor Reserve Officer Cloninger, POINT 27 sent 27 Thin Blue Line Dog Tag Necklaces, engraved with “Blessed are the Peacemakers for they will be called children of God” Matthew 5:9, to the Mount Gilead Police Department in Mount Gilead, North Carolina for Robert’s partner and fellow officers. POINT 27 sent a Folded Flag Necklace engraved with “Greater Love has no one than this; than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend” John 15:13 for Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger’s wife.

POINT 27 is a Non-Profit organization with a mission to strengthen and encourage members of the Armed Forces, First Responders, and their families, by sharing scripture on Dog Tags and Jewelry called Shields of Strength.

We will never forget and we are forever grateful.

Respectfully,

Colonel David Dodd,
United States Army Retired
Executive Director-POINT 27

Detective Jerry M. Rhodes (Retired)
Dallas Police Department-Reserve Division
POINT 27 National Outreach Coordinator
Law Enforcement Liaison
[email protected]
214-908-2617

Detective Jerry M. Rhodes (Retired)
Dallas Police Department Reserve Division
POINT 27- National Out Reach Coordinator
Law Enforcement Liaison

August 17, 2021

My condolences to your family and loved ones brother, thank you for dedicating your life to the service of our people selflessly, you will be missed. We’ll take it from here.

Officer J Robedeau
Troup County Sheriff Dept.

August 17, 2021

A police officer should be remembered not by how he died but how he lived! A great man has gone to secure a safe path for the rest of us to follow. Thank you to you, your family and the Mount Gilead Police Department. Our country is a little less safe without you. Rest in Peace Brother!

Chief (Ret) Steven Marshall
Georges Mills, NH

August 17, 2021

My family and I would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fellow coworkers of Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger during this difficult time. May they find comfort and support from those around them. May happy moments from the past bring forth precious memories to cherish for a lifetime. May God help heal their aching hearts. Thank you for your service and may you rest in peace Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger.

Gail. M. Pabst
Aunt of fallen Detroit P.O. Jennifer Fettig eow 2/16/04

August 17, 2021

Rest In Peace Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger! Thank you for your 19 years of total Law Enforcement service including your service as a reserve officer with the Mount Gilead Police Department and as a full-time officer with the Biscoe Police Department in North Carolina, and for your previous service with the Richmond County Sheriff's Office and Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and also for serving with the Ellerbe Rescue Squad. We are all thankful to you for your service, your devotion and your sacrifices, and to your family and friends for their sacrifices. Our hearts break for your wife and your two daughters during this tragedy, and we want them to know that you will never be forgotten! Our thoughts and Prayers go out to the rest of your family and to all of your sisters and brothers in Blue that protect us. God bless you all!! (Matthew5:9)

Kelly & Eddie King

August 17, 2021

Rest in peace Reserve Officer Cloninger.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 17, 2021

God rest his soul.

Sgt. Robert A. Henne
Jersey City PD/Retired

August 17, 2021

Heavenly Father, the death of ______ has filled his family’s eyes with tears and their hearts with sorrow. We are distressed by the mysteries of Your providence. As Your child we want so much to say, “Not my will, but Yours be done,” but at times we find it difficult to do. Forgive us and help us. We pray by Your Holy Spirit, to accept Your ways as always best. Apply to these wounded hearts the healing touch of our precious promises, and let them soon experience its power. Teach us not to mourn as those who have no hope. Wipe away the tears from our eyes that we may be able to see through the mist, beyond death and grave, to the Resurrection and Life assured by the glorious victory of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, over death and the grave. May the passing of ______ remind us that we, too, are but pilgrims and strangers on earth. Grant us the grace to love less and less the things that are material and temporal, and to love more and more the things that are spiritual and eternal. Teach us to number our days and to apply our heart to the wisdom taught by Jesus Christ, that He is the Way and the Truth and the Life, and that no one comes to You but by Him. In Your Mighty and Holy Name, I pray. Amen.

Chaplain Steven R. Closs, D.Div, MSBS, RPP, NCCA
Ordained / Licensed Independent Christian Clergy
The Peace Officers Prayer Ministry
Merrimack, NH 03054

Captain Steven R. Closs (Ret.)
Nashua NH Police Department

August 17, 2021

Psalm 15
God bless.
Rest in peace brother.

Sgt. Paul Schanno
Minnesota Dept. of Corrections MCF-Stillwater

August 17, 2021

Rest in Peace my brother.

Captain Bernard Flint
Department of Defense Police Division

August 17, 2021

On behalf of the Ohio Attorneys General Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, our thoughts and prayers are with the immediate family of Reserve Officer Robert Craig Cloninger and the extended law enforcement family of the Mount Gilead Police Department, North Carolina.


End of Watch Sunday, August 15, 2021.


Rest in Peace brother and watch over us. We will protect and serve from here on in your honor.

I fight not for glory or fame, for they are momentary. I fight for those who can't. I fight for Justice. I fight for the oppressed and the down trodden. And if I should lose my life for these just causes, then I have no regrets, For I serve to protect the innocent. It matters not where or when, for evil knows no boundaries. Be it fire, flood, or the threat of tyranny, I will not flee. Justice is my weapon. Faith is my shield. Hope is my armor. Cry not at my passing, for it was my Honor to fight for you. Shed not tears of sorrow, But tears of joy, for now, I stand with God.

By Jon F. Hooper

"Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Superintendent Joe Morbitzer
Ohio Attorney General, Bureau of Criminal Investigation

August 17, 2021